Soon after his recording studio was raided by cops and through a kangaroo court he was sentenced to six months in jail. Gives me a different impression of Zappa’s formation and understanding of corruption, power and the unlikelihood that sound bites on freedom amount to anything meaningful. I feel inspired by Frank Zappa, by his frequent need to write and compose. Favourite parts of the 2020 doc about him are when Ruth Underwood tells the story about the letter she gave him, knowing he was dying and addressed how he changed her life, and from her perspective the world, and says please don’t read this until after I’m gone but he just rips it open right there and reads it and thanks her and she’s crying. The other part is finding out in Czechoslovakia, in the 70s and 80s that the derogatory way of the police and media insulting and shunning musicians who ventured into rock sensibilities, came with a name, they called it Frank Zappa music. He was synonymous with outlawed and loathsome aesthetics. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, he’s invited to play and at the airport is greeted by hundreds with enlarged posters of his and he doesn’t know what’s going on. Awesome footage and not long before his life ends. Such a pleasing cherry on top of so much surrealism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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